January 2022 - RoboCup-sim - lists.robocup.org

[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Next game day on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET)
by Alessandra Rossi 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Dear Robocuppers, Next game day of the RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season will be on on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET). Games will be streaming on Twitch Field A in the following order: 1 Bit-Bots vs NUbots 3:00 pm CET 2 Starkit vs UTRA 3:30 pm CET 3 MRL-HSL vs ITAndroids 4:00 pm CET 4 CIT Brains vs 01. RFC Berlin 4:30 pm CET Have a look at the website for more information about the games, including previous games, scores, and so on. https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/humanoid-league-virtual-season-2021-… For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Best regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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RoboCup 2022 Participation Survey
by Marco Simões 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Hi, The RoboCup 2022 LOC asked all teams who are planning to participate in RoboCup 2022 to answer the following survey to investigate the possible challenges and requirements of event participants. *Teams should complete the survey online by January 31, 2022*. https://forms.gle/Y2d2xH34fTuZUAQe7 ** For teams located in countries without access to Google Forms, please complete the below plain text survey or the attached excel file and email it to April <april.robocup(a)gmail.com> *by January 29, 2022*.** Best Regards, Marco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand Dear All, We would hereby invite you to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. This survey aims to explore the possible challenges and requirements of participants in the event, which will be held in 11-17 July 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand. According to the covid-19 pandemic situation, Thailand is gearing up for a return to normalcy by easing some travel restrictions and quarantine requirements and allowing normal tourists to enter the country. In addition, the government has now introduced sandbox programs allowing fully vaccinated travelers from 63 low-risk countries to enter the country without quarantine. For more specific information on situation and arrival requirements, please kindly visit our website on https://2022.robocup.org/. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to seeing you at the event. RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Required ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Section 1: Team Information* Please fill out the form below for each of your teams. *(1) Team Name*: * *(2) Name of Team Representative*:* *(3) Lastname of Team Representative *: * *(4) Contact E-mail *: * *(5) Country *: * *(6) Team's Institution *: * *(7) The league that the team will complete in (Please fill out one survey for every league your team will complete in) *: * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Section 2: RoboCup Participation* *(1) Have your team ever attended a RoboCup event? (YES/NO) *:* *(2) We know that the world situation can change quickly. But based on your current knowledge of the situation and future perspectives in Thailand, in your country, and your team. Do you currently plan to attend RoboCup 2022 in July, Bangkok, Thailand? (YES/ Maybe/ NO)*: * *(3) If your answer was NO or Maybe in the last question, could you please explain what led you to choose such an answer?:* *(4) For teams intending to participate in RoboCup 2022 in Thailand, how do you rate the likelihood that your team will be able to actually. (More likely/ Neutral/ Less likely):* *(5) What reasons might prevent you from actually traveling to RoboCup 2022? (Pandemic situation, Home country situation, Thailand situation, Traveling conditions, etc.) You can answer more than one): * *(6) If you travel to Thailand, how many people on the team are expected traveling to Thailand? *:* *(7) If you end up not being able to travel to Thailand, would your team be interested in participating in a virtual event of some sort? (YES/NO):* *(8) Please explain your answer for the last question:* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Section 3: What is your concern about participating in the event?* *(1) Covid-19 Pandemic:* *(2) Technical:* *(3) Visa Issue:* *(4) Others:* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to seeing you at the event. For more information, please visit our website on “ https://2022.robocup.org/” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE

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Research Project Learning Setplays from Demonstration - Call for Contributions
by Marco Simões 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Hi, We have been working in the last years on a project in our lab named "Learning Setplays from Demonstration." The main goal of this project is to provide evidence that we can catch human's intuitive knowledge in a domain and use it to feed a massive dataset for robots to learn how to cooperate to solve problems in this domain. At this time, we are gathering contributions worldwide to populate the dataset. So we ask your contribution in the following way: 1- Watch some robot soccer games 2- Locate situations where you think you can demonstrate a setplay for a team to perform better in that situation 3-Create your demonstration 4- Send us several demonstrations To turn it easier for you, we have developed the BahiaRT's Learning Setplays from Demonstration Toolkit that encapsulates in Docker containers all tools you need to watch games and create setplays demonstrations. The following links contain all information you need: - The BahiaRT's Learning Setplays from Demonstration Toolkit - https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/ - Setup instructions: https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/README.md - Usage instructions: https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/USAGE.md - Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/h_s8rA2IS88 At the end of this project, we will provide: 1- A public massive setplays dataset organized using our fuzzy clustering strategy ready to be used for any soccer team (not only 3D simulation teams) 2- Source code of the dataset organizer and the deep reinforcement learning engine used for teams training. 3- Results published (Ph.D. thesis and several papers). You can see some earlier publications of this project at the end of this message. We appreciate your contribution. Anyone who enjoys soccer can contribute. You do not need any experience with robot soccer or 3D Soccer Simulation. I hope you have fun and send us several setplays demonstrations in the following weeks. If you have any doubts, please send a message to teambahiart(a)gmail.com. Best, Marco Earlier Publications: [1]M. A. C. Simões et al., “Generating a dataset for learning setplays from demonstration”, SN Appl. Sci., vol. 3, nº 6, p. 608, jun. 2021, doi: 10.1007/s42452-021-04571-y. [2]M. A. C. Simões, R. M. da Silva, e T. Nogueira, “A Dataset Schema for Cooperative Learning from Demonstration in Multi-robot Systems”, J Intell Robot Syst, vol. 99, nº 3–4, p. 589–608, set. 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10846-019-01123-w. [3]M. A. C. Simoes et al., “Strategy Planner: Enhancements to support better defense and pass strategies within an LfD approach”, in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Ponta Delgada, Portugal, abr. 2020, p. 46–52. doi: 10.1109/ICARSC49921.2020.9096188. [4]M. A. C. Simões e T. Nogueira, “Towards setplays learning in a multiagent robotic soccer team”, in 2018 latin american robotic symposium, 2018 brazilian symposium on robotics (SBR) and 2018 workshop on robotics in education (WRE), nov. 2018, p. 277–282. doi: 10.1109/LARS/SBR/WRE.2018.00058. -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Livre de vírus. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…>. <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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RoboCup 2022: 3D Soccer Simulation Call for Participation
by Marco Simões 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Call for Participation RoboCup 2022 Soccer Simulation 3D League July 11 – July 17, 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand) https://2022.robocup.org/ »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting using different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies. We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2022 Soccer Simulation League 3D competition, which will take place from July 11 – July 17, in Bangkok, Thailand. If you are interested in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Important Dates »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» February 28, 2022 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline March 20, 2022: Qualified Teams Announcement July 11 – 17 2022: Competition »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee for the 2022 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues. A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members. In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to the best NEW team in the 3D competition. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Pre-Registration »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» No Pre-Registration required this year. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Qualification »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list, and development of the simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams. In RoboCup 2022, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer Simulation competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2021 (UT Austin Villa, magmaOffenburg, Apollo3D) are automatically qualified after submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process. The qualification deadline is the 28th of February 2022. Qualification material consists of: 1. Team Description Paper (TDP) The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the team. It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others’ efforts (including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result in immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP must be at least four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style. <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…> Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. Teamname_TDP.pdf . 2. A List of Publications and Achievements on previous RoboCup Symposia and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please also include your team’s achievements in RoboCup and related events of previous years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential. Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. Teamname_list.pdf . 3. Binary All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the simulator used during the 2021 competitions <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-rules/>. Submitted binaries should adhere to the following: – Two scripts should be included: a startup script, called start.sh, to run a full team of agents, and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can be found on the rules page <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-rules/>. – All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra libraries on the qualification systems. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available. – The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used. – The binary should be compiled for 64 bit systems and should work on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 18.04. You may also send 32-bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs correctly on 64-bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32-bit libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. To summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system in a restricted sandbox environment with the simulation server (possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline. Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration form <https://forms.gle/2Yonrwyjjig9H3pi7>. You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials. If everything works fine, you will receive a confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-committees#OC>. If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials please don’t hesitate to contact the OC <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-committees#OC>. Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in this CfP. The following general qualification limitations will also be considered: – One-Third-Rule: The so-called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to 1/3 of the participants in a competition may be from the same country. – One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D and 3D soccer. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 3D Soccer Simulation League Resources »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Important resources with more information on 3D Simulation League are: – <https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/3D/>Tutorials for Newcomers <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/> – RoboCup Competitions archive <https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/3D/> (TDPs, binaries, logs, and replays) – Watch the 2021 Final in your browser!!! <https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/3D/replays/RoboCup/2021/Elim…> – 3D Main Simulator <https://gitlab.com/robocup-sim/SimSpark/-/releases> – Prebuilt binaries from OpenSUSE build service for openSUSE and Ubuntu <https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=science%3ASimSpark&pac…> – 3D Viewer <https://github.com/magmaOffenburg/RoboViz> – 3D agent source code releases <https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/#basecodes> (includes several champion teams) (These source codes include Omni-directional walks, getup behaviors, kick motions, and interface to SimSpark/Gazebo simulator) Best Regards, RoboCup 2022 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE

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RoboCup Humanoid League Virtual Season: second day of games
by Alessandra Rossi 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Dear RoboCuppers, The Humanoid League would like to invite you at the second day of games of the HL-Virtual Season. Teams are competing in a virtual tournament that will go every two weeks from Dec 19th to May 1st. Second day of games will be streamed on Sunday Jan 9th at 10am (CET time) on https://www.twitch.tv/robocuphumanoidfielda Full game schedule and more info are available on our website -> humanoid.robocup.org For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Kind regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Research Fellow PRISCA research lab University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Visiting Researcher Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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